Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21
THE PRESBYTERIANS.
The Second Session of the General Assem-.
bly, Held at st. Louis.

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bly, Held at st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 20.-The seConC
session Of the general assembly of thu
Presbyterian Church South was held il
the Grand Avenue church to-day. The
papers in the case of Robertson VS.. the
Synod of North Carolina, the evolution
heresy matter, were given in charge o.
the judicial committee.
The Second Church of Philadelphia in
Vited the members of the assembly to at
tend the celebration of the First Presoy
terrain Centennial in Philadelphia.
The moderator of the northern church
general assembly conveyed in
a letter fraternsl greetings Of
that body and declared the sym.
pathY of that body in 5 plan fol
closer fellowship and desiring to CO.
| operate with the Southern church with
regard to the unity of work in missions,
| both foreign and home.
The trustees Of Columbia Theological
seminary of South Csrolina, reported
| that owing to the violence of the evoIu-
| ton controversy the seminary has been
closed for twelve months.
The Judicial committee recommended
changes in the church law that would
give ruling elders the right to preside
over the meetings of presbyteries as
moderators.
The plan of union of the Presbyterian
churches of the Empire of Brazil proposed
that churches from the national synod at
Rio Janeiro, which shall have power to
divide Brazil into three missions, in their
report decided to extend its work
in China and japan instead of
paying further attention to Brazil
because the bigotry of Brazil renders
conversions almost impossible. The
American Indians objected to the trans
fer Of their WORK to the home missions
committee on the ground that this would
be an entering wedge to splitting up their
life as nation and annexing them to the
United States.
There were large number of commu-
nications from presbyteries on the sub
ject of organic union with the north
church. The Missouri synod believed that
the church should be non-political
and advocated union of the assemblies.
Several communications were received
opposing the union, on the ground that
the difficulty would be with the colored
element. They felt that it would be dan
gerous to mingle them with colored chill
dren in schools and churches.
Messrs. J. J. Bullock, j. A. La
fevre, P. 6. Fernow and J. F.
Anderson communicated their declination
of reelection as members OF the foreign
missions executive committee, as they
felt they could not cooperate with the
others for the good OF the cause.
The Central Texas and the Dallas pres
byteries opposed a union of south and
north churches, but favored closer
relations.
The remainder of the day was taken
up in the presentation and the reading of
reports of committees and boards, all of
which gave good accounts of matters and
interests in their charge and under their
countrol. To-night's session was de-
voted to the Bethel missions, and Rev. A.
]. Witherspoon, chaplain of the New
Orleans Bethel, made an address and
gave long account of the Bethel and its
results in that city. he is anxious to
extend the system to all inland ports
in the country.